The Linux Reading List HOWTO

Eric Steven Raymond

Copyright

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the Open Publication License, version 2.0.

Revision History
Revision 3.02004-02-04esr
Major update. Removed out-of-date books, added a new one.
Revision 2.12003-10-28esr
Added TAOUP.
Revision 2.02003-07-31esr
Major revision, cleaned out obsolete stuff.
Revision 1.212003-02-22esr
LDP site has moved.
Revision 1.202001-06-14esr
Removed "Practical Unix Security"; it's five years old and the material is now covered better by other books.
Revision 1.192001-06-14esr
Added Ross Anderson's "Security Engineering". Corrected ISBNs.

Abstract

This document lists the books I think are most valuable to a person trying to learn Unix (especially Linux) top to bottom.


Table of Contents

1. Introduction
1.1. Purpose of this document
1.2. New versions of this document
1.3. Feedback and Corrections
1.4. Related Resources
1.5. Conventions Used In This Document
Basic Linux and Unix bibliography
A. Administrivia
1. Terms of Use
2. History